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  • Bougainville rebels prepare for mercenaries

    Fighters of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) are on "red alert" in preparation for attacks by South African mercenaries hired by the Papua New Guinea government. The pro-independence Bougainville Interim Government has

  • The China Deng left behind

    Readers of the western press are told that the economy in China has been "booming" in recent years and the people living in increasing "prosperity" due to their new-found economic freedom. The tens of millions of workers in

  • Unions blockade Swaziland

    Thousands of trade unionists in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique prevented trucks entering or leaving Swaziland on March 3, in solidarity with the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions.

  • Timber firms threaten the Amazon

    Asian industrial loggers are poised to significantly impact the world's largest rainforest wilderness, the Amazon. Within the past year, several of south-east Asia's biggest forestry conglomerates — known for abysmal

  • More Israeli settlements planned

    On February 26, the Israeli government announced the future construction of 2600 housing units between East Jerusalem and Bethlehem on Mount Abu Ghneim. These units will be built for Jewish settlers as part of the continuing

  • MLN pledges economic and social reform

    The changes in El Salvador over the past five years are the result of 11 years of armed struggle led by the Frente Farabundo Martì para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN) for liberation, progress and democracy. The

  • Irish nationalist vote to be split

    Irish nationalist vote to be splitSocial Democratic and Labour Party leader John Hume has rejected Sinn Féin's proposal for an electoral pact in the upcoming Westminster elections. Sinn Féin chairperson Mitchel

  • Armed forces accuse the PRD

    For the second time in two weeks, the armed forces' chief of social and political affairs, Syarwan Hamid, has accused the People's Democratic Party (PRD) of being behind the riots which have been rocking the country over the last

  • Letter from the US: Clinton the strikebreaker

    Four minutes after their strike began at 12:01am on February 15, American Airlines pilots were ordered back to work by President Clinton under an especially reactionary labour law, the Railway Labor Act (RLA). This law authorises the President to

  • Russian budget-cutters court environmental disaster

    Russian budget-cutters court environmental disasterMOSCOW — Sergey Mund, the director of the Elektrogorsk Institute for Oil Processing, was clearly worried. On his institute's premises just east of Moscow were 663 rods of

  • The women's struggle in Burma

    Women played an active role in Burma's struggle for independence — from British colonial rule and Japanese occupation — and remained an organised force under the post-independence government, 1948-58. Ne Win's seizure of power in 1958 and his

  • Indonesian prisoners announce hunger strike

    Starting on March 3, the 14 People's Democratic Party (PRD) prisoners who are now on trial on subversion charges, which carry the death penalty, will launch a hunger strike protest against unfair actions by the judges and